www.WirelessFederation.com/news: SFR, the French mobile operator, is reportedly offering the Samsung Galaxy smartphone, the manufacturer’s first Android handset only available through Bouygues Telecom in France since mid-July. SFR has priced the handset at EUR 99 with an Illimythics plan, including rebate, compared to Bouygues’s starting price of EUR 89. The handset will be available at EUR 409 as a standalone product. The Samsung Galaxy features a 3.5-inch AMOLED touch screen, 5 Megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, GPS, Google applications, media player, and 8 GB of memory, expandable to 40 GB. It uses the Android version 1.5 (Cupcake).
On 08.24.09, In Mobile, By Editor
On 08.20.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Mr. Chaiyod Chirabowornkul, Head of DTAC’s Postpaid Business Division, and Mr. Nattawat Woranopakul, Country Manager of HTC (Thailand) Company Limited, introduce the promotional campaign that provides the customers who buy HTC Snap smartphones with free SMS Internet SIM cards and the right to use the SIM cards free of charge for 1 year. The customers can send 200 short messages and have 20 hours of EDGE/GPRS connection per month free of charge. Customers are also eligible for lucky draws that offer free HTC Snap smartphones and free 1-year use of SMS Internet SIM cards if they inform 10 friends of the promotional campaign through forwarded emails or www.dtac.co.th. Five prizes will be presented every week. A total of 20 prizes worth over 300,000 baht will be given from August 17 to September 13, 2009. The list of lucky customers will be announced on www.dtac.co.th.
DTAC introduces SMS Internet SIM, the latest in its Second SIM series, especially as the most financially reasonable service for the customers whose demands focus on SMS and data. The service fee is very economical, 149 baht a month, for the transmission of 200 short messages and 20 hours of EDGE/GPRS connection monthly. For further service use, customers will pay only half the normal fees. The new SIM cards are launched in conjunction with HTC as customers are eligible for free HTC Snap smartphones and free 1-year use of SMS Internet SIM cards. (more…)
On 08.20.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Palm’s second webOS smartphone, Palm Eos’s (Palm Pixie), launch will be delayed to 2010. Eos was earlier rumoured via AT&T in H2′09. But market analysts unveil that the launch is not likely happen in 2009 holiday season. However, when it will come, the new Palm handset should have a low price on contract, in order to be competitive with AT&T’s other smartphones.
On 08.17.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile operator, has officially launched the Dell’s first smartphone dubbed as Dell Mini 3i (also spelled MINI3I).
The Dell Mini 3i runs of China Mobile’s OMS (Open Mobile System) platform – which is based on Android.
On 08.17.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: HTC, the handset manufacturer, will reportedly launch two new smartphones HTC Mega and HTC Click in early Q4′09 i.e. October.
Being part of HTC’s upcoming mid-range line-up, both devices will be priced at nearly $300.HTC Mega will feature Windows Mobile 6.5, GSM and HSDPA connectivity, GPS, 3MP camera, and a 2.8 inch QVGA display.
Whereas HTC Click is an Android based smartphone.
HTC with the launch of these two handsets, anticipates a rise of 19% in handset shipments.
On 08.13.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: HTC which in April started selling the highly anticipated HTC Magic via Vodafone now reports to have sold 1 million handsets worldwide, fulfilling its plans which CEO Peter Chou had announced.
HTC further revealed that it now wants to shift its focus to mid-end smartphones for the rest of the year. According to Peter Chou, mid-end handsets will account for about 50-60% of the company’s shipments in the second half of 2009.
He further said mid-end smartphones should have a retail price of about $300. Most probably, the Android-powered HTC Click will be among these upcoming devices.
On 08.13.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Research In Motion (RIM) today announced plans to launch the new BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphone in various countries across Latin America and the Caribbean, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Venezuela. The BlackBerry Curve 8520 – a new addition to the BlackBerry Curve series – is an incredibly approachable smartphone with plenty of easy-to-use communications and multimedia features to keep you connected and entertained on the go. It is expected to be available starting in early September, with specific dates varying from country to country.
For people who like to be connected, the slim new BlackBerry Curve 8520 provides easy mobile access to email, messaging (IM, SMS, MMS) and popular social networking sites (including Facebook® and MySpace) and features a highly tactile full-QWERTY keyboard for comfortable, accurate typing. It also features rich multimedia capabilities and easy access to music, games and other mobile entertainment apps.
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On 08.11.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Dell will reportedly enter the Chinese mobile market by next month with a handset or two. According to a media report, Dell is in talks with China Mobile to offer a smartphone operating on TD-SCDMA band. The deal is likely to close by Aug-end and will boost Dell’s presence in China. The phone will be built on China Mobile’s modified Android platform dubbed as Open Mobile System (OMS), that allows China Mobile to integrate its own set of apps.
On 08.07.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: KT Corp, has reportely confirmed that it will bring Apple iPhone to the Korean local market. Yeon-hak, Kim, KT, CFO, said, “Apple iPhone will be in our smartphone line-up. [We expect that the] iPhone will help to expand the smartphone market and will contribute to increasing the ARPU.”
On the other hand, SK Telecom also reveals that it is in talks with Apple to introduce the iPhone as well. If the deal is achieved in Korea, then Apple’s iPhone will not be sold through an exclusive operator unlike other countries, including the U.S., Japan, and China.
On 08.06.09, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: India’s largest mobile carrier, Airtel, has introduced RIM’s brand new BlackBerry Curve 8520 (also known as BlackBerry Gemini). Th subscribers will be able to purchase the smartphone starting August 7, at the retail price of 15,990 INR (about $336).